Double ABC-X Model - Answer-a model designed to help us understand the effects of the accumulation of stresses and crises and how families adapt to them
Assumptions about stress - Answer--stress is normal
-stress is relative
-stress upsets equilibrium
-dis-equilibrium activates coping mechani...
FAML 400 Quiz 3 Questions with
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Double ABC-X Model - Answer-a model designed to help us understand the effects of
the accumulation of stresses and crises and how families adapt to them
Assumptions about stress - Answer--stress is normal
-stress is relative
-stress upsets equilibrium
-dis-equilibrium activates coping mechanisms
-inadequacy of coping mechanisms--> quality of family's adaptation
Stressor events (a) - Answer-any life event that changes the family social system
(disrupts the equilibrium)
-stressors can be wanted or unwanted
-Positive or negative
-can be planned for or unexpected
-they impact roles, routines, relationships, expectations and ways of being
Resources (b) - Answer-properties, attributes, skills, supports available to deal with the
stressors
Perception/ Meaning of stressor (c) - Answer-Family's defintion/ appraisal of stressor &
worldview about it
If resources are inadequate and family says they cant handle it and are struggling -
Answer-they are going into crisis (x)
developmental crisis - Answer-Life is going to change in big ways for roles, relationships
and expectations
-predictable normative changes and transitions necessary for moving forward in one's
personal or family trajectory
-models and scripts are available
EX: graduation from college (career center, interview prep)
situational crisis - Answer-Unpredictable, sudden, unexpected disruptions
-they put life on hold
, -external resources are often needed (instrumental concrete surface-), expressive, and
expert help and support-child care, neighbors, support groups)
-models and scripts may or may not be available
EX tornado, first gen college students (first gen students in college may be unexpected)
Existential crisis - Answer-Disruptions of certainty of existence as we know it
-they threaten identity
-can disrupt certainty and faith, may lose faith
EXs:
-divorce (till death do us part and what I know of life is this persons partner, I am a wife
and divorce shakes that foundation and sense of self, i've been married to a stranger)
-loss in faith of government (what does it mean to be an American anymore)
Pile up (A) - Answer--The accumulation or clustering of stressor events (aka- one thing
leads to another)
Types and Factors: The initial stressor then all of this can flow from it
-Hardships of initial stressor (domino effect)
-Chronic stress
-transitions
-consequences (internal or external appraisals: blame, shame, defensiveness,
scapegoating, shunning etc.)
-ambiguity
Hardships of initial stressor Pile up A (domino effect) EX - Answer-if I lose my job lose
my income, if i lose that i use my savings up, im late on bills, my credit tanks, when my
credit tanks, i can get a loan, my car breaks down and i cant pay, i lose transportation
and cant get a job
Chronic stress Pile up A (baked in) EX - Answer-initial stressor is onset of a disabling
condition in a family member
initially loss of time, need to learn new skills, effected person and loved ones may
experience depression or other forms of ill health
-pile up of demands, we have to become care givers for the needs of this loved one and
they will not go away because they are chronic strains
transitions Pile up A (Life goes on) EX - Answer-life can only stay on hold for so long,
people have to keep living
-making the transitions can become additional stressors that accumulate
Deployed family member may go missing in action
-puts family on hold but they cant stay on hold, non normative- are they still alive? do
we consider them when we move forward in life?
Consequences Pile up A (internal or external appraisals) - Answer-people may blame
themselves for initial stressors for problems occuring
-if it weren't for me, everyone would be better off
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